沙特将披露本国石油储量详细数据
Saudi Arabia is set to lift the lid on one of the energy industry’s most closely guarded secrets as it prepares to sell shares in Saudi Aramco: how much oil lies beneath the desert kingdom’s sands.
在沙特阿拉伯准备将沙特阿美(Saudi Aramco)挂牌上市之际，该国将要揭开能源行业保守得最为严密的秘密之一：在这个沙漠王国的沙土底下究竟埋藏着多少石油。
“This is going to be the most transparent national oil company listing of all time,” Khalid al-Falih, the energy minister of Saudi Arabia, said in an interview with the Financial Times.
沙特能源大臣哈立德.法立赫(Khalid al-Falih)在接受英国《金融时报》采访时表示：“这将是有史以来最为透明的一次国有石油公司上市。”
Saudi officials have consistently said there are about 260bn barrels of proven reserves at the world’s largest oil exporter since the formerly US-controlled Saudi Aramco was nationalised in the 1980s.
自原本由美国控制的沙特阿美上世纪80年代被收归国有以来，沙特官员一直表示，该国已探明石油储量约为2600亿桶。
But the profiles of oilfields and reserves estimates have remained a source of intrigue among global energy executives and investors who have been unable to verify the Saudi figures.
但一直无法证实沙特方面数据的全球能源高管和投资者，仍然对各油田剖面情况和储量估测保持着浓厚的兴趣。
Mr Falih said independently audited numbers would soon be disclosed.
法立赫表示，将很快公布经过独立审计的数据。
“Everything that Saudi Aramco has, that will be shared, that will be verified by independent third parties,” he said, adding this would include financial statements, “reserves . . . costs [and] profitability indicators”.
他表示，“沙特阿美的一切都将公之于众，由独立第三方核实”，并补充称，这将包括财报，“储量……成本（和）盈利指标”。
Speculation about whether detailed data on the kingdom’s reserves — managed by the state oil company — would be given to investors has intensified since January, when Saudi Arabia said it was looking at a stock market listing of Saudi Aramco that could value the company at $2tn.
自今年1月以来，有越来越多的人在猜测该国石油储量的详细数据（由沙特阿美管理）是否将提供给投资者。今年1月沙特表示，正考虑将沙特阿美挂牌上市，该公司估值可能高达2万亿美元。
If the government data proved accurate, this would be significant as it would mean the kingdom has managed to replace each barrel it has produced with oil from new discoveries or higher estimates of the amount of oil it can recover from existing fields.
如果沙特政府的数据准确的话，这将是一件意义重大的事情，因为它将意味着，要么是该国成功实现了生产的每一桶石油都有新发现的石油替补，要么是该国提高了对现有油田可开采量的预估。
